Oi, GSB!

[Diet Soda]

Your food sucks

I like the guy but I can't let this one go. So I'm calling him out to justify his slagging off of British food. I used to be a chef so I feel I have to defend his accusation.

DIG FOR VICTORY!

 

[The Talon]

The Bar Room is collapsing on itself.

 

[Lowdown]

Loving the fish and chips, Soda.

 

[smizzy]

Pleace explain to me what this is because it was part of a meal I had at Universal Studios and refused to touch it!

The other plate's contents look scrumptious. 1 Point for the UK.

 

[Diet Soda]

The Bar Room is collapsing on itself.

Maybe I should've put this thread in a non-spam section, because as usual you are contributing fuck all.

Loving the fish and chips, Soda.

Cheers.

Pleace explain to me what this is because it was part of a meal I had at Universal Studios and refused to touch it!

The other plate's contents look scrumptious. 1 Point for the UK.

It's black pudding. A boiled sausage made with pig's blood and oats.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

Every dining out conversation I've ever had in my life:

Me: Hey, what do you feel like for dinner?
No one: British Cuisine.

I live in Chicago. It is a melting pot full of many races and cultures. The city has Italian, Mexican, French, Thai, Chinese, Sushi, Tapas, Indian, and Korean restaurants everywhere. I can think of two British restaurants and both are better known as places to get a pint.

I'm sure you are a fantastic chef but your food is dry, tasteless, boring and too filling.

2012 will mark the first ever Olympics were the fans come close to starving themselves.

Although I will admit to enjoying a good fish fry (haddock, not cod).

 

[shattered dreams]

Next they will try and convince us the weather is good there.

 

[Natural Selection]

I'm sure you are a fantastic chef but your food is dry, tasteless, boring and too filling.

Agreed, give me flavor or at least spices.

 

[Loveless]

I like the guy but I can't let this one go. So I'm calling him out to justify his slagging off of British food. I used to be a chef so I feel I have to defend his accusation.

And that's the best you can do? Ah you're from Lancashire, well that explains it. British food has long moved on from everything you pictured.

 

[Daniel]

I'm British and British food sucks.

I mean, gammon, egg and pineapple? Together? Fuck the fuck off.

 

[Барбоса]

British cuisine is the same as American cuisine. It barely exists as a separate entity, relying on multiculturalism to give it flair.

Having said that, the top echelons of British cooking have come on leaps and bounds in the last decade.

 

[Serious Mozzarella]

It's black pudding. A boiled sausage made with pig's blood and oats.

Pudding?

 

[George Steele's Barber]

British cuisine is the same as American cuisine. It barely exists as a separate entity, relying on multiculturalism to give it flair.

Having said that, the top echelons of British cooking have come on leaps and bounds in the last decade.

When I think American cuisine I think fast, frozen and packaged. High in chemicals, fat and carbs. Most likely stolen from another country (see Hamburgers and Hotdogs).

I haven't travelled outside of N. America? Is there such a thing as going out for American food?

 

[Richard Blonoff]

We have an authentic English pub close to here called the Fox and Hound, the owner used to play for Tamworth F.C. The fish and chips are excellent, they even serve them in newspapers. The rest of the stuff is hit and miss for me

 

[Барбоса]

When I think American cuisine I think fast, frozen and packaged. High in chemicals, fat and carbs. Most likely stolen from another country (see Hamburgers and Hotdogs).

I haven't travelled outside of N. America? Is there such a thing as going out for American food?

There is such a thing as American restaurants but while some of them might serve American dishes such as Key Lime Pie or Mississippi Mud Pie, they are American in their style/theme such as a 1950s diner or a steakhouse.

Or like the last place I was at, just a normal restaurant with a normal menu but the walls plastered with American pictures, flags and memorabilia.

 

[JWGunslinger]

I'll give the brits fish and chips but everything else I had when I was over there was blah. But then again I only spent a day and a half there waiting for a friend and a flight so the next time I end up over there I'll have to try some other stuff.

 

[Sparky]

Egg and pineapple on the same plate?

 

[Diet Soda]

I live in Chicago. It is a melting pot full of many races and cultures. The city has Italian, Mexican, French, Thai, Chinese, Sushi, Tapas, Indian, and Korean restaurants everywhere.

As is Britain, certainly in the larger cities like Manchester.

So tell me then, what's the local fare in Chicago? Other than...

Spoiler

I'm sure you are a fantastic chef but your food is dry, tasteless, boring and too filling.

Flattery will get you nowhere (this time). I don't see how our food can be dry when most dishes are served with some sort of sauce or gravy. Tasteless is also an invalid criticism, especially since over 50% of the UK is used for agriculture, and we are also one of the biggest importers of ingredients, so our dishes are hardly devoid of flavour. If your experience with British cooking is limited to some themed restaurant over there, then you can't call all of our food since you haven't had the authentic thing.

2012 will mark the first ever Olympics were the fans come close to starving themselves.

Isn't the world's largest McDonald's in the Olympic Park? Which brings me on to...

And that's the best you can do? Ah you're from Lancashire, well that explains it. British food has long moved on from everything you pictured.

Typical Londoner response. Our capital may as well be a different country it's that out of touch. You're right though, as is Барбоса, in that British food is experiencing a high point right now because of people like this:

Spoiler

What makes their recipes so special is that they will use traditional British dishes and modernise them. The classics that I put in my opening post are still enjoyed up and down the country outside of the London bubble, and moreover it's what foreigners think of when they think 'British cuisine'.

I mean, gammon, egg and pineapple? Together? Fuck the fuck off.

Egg and pineapple on the same plate?

Don't knock it till you've tried it.

When I think American cuisine I think fast, frozen and packaged. High in chemicals, fat and carbs. Most likely stolen from another country (see Hamburgers and Hotdogs).

I haven't travelled outside of N. America? Is there such a thing as going out for American food?

Well yeah, there are chains of restaurants like Hard Rock Cafe where the menu is mostly burgers the size of your head, but I'm sure there is more to North American food as that; with such a large country there must be a myriad of regional variation, especially with the melting pot notion you mentioned above.
My girlfriend and I used to go to a restaurant in Manchester called Old Orleans that was Louisiana themed: jazz music and memorabilia, creole cuisine and cocktails, etc., it was a fun place to go, but I doubt it's a patch on the real deal.

Here's some more food:

 

[Sparky]

It's a free world

How many of those are actually british dishes rather then dishes that are cooked in Britain?

 

[Diet Soda]

Well they're British recipes made with British ingredients. Where I live there is a heavy emphasis on locally sourced produce.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Soda, if you can make me a Cullen Skink then I will marry you. Or congratulate you. One or the other.

 

[Shotaro]

British food is awesome, from Cheese on Toast to Blood (Black) Pudding, stopping off at Fish and Chips, Yorkshire puddings and Roast potatoes on the way. American food is not too dissimilar if often massively processed.

The high end of British cooking has come on a LONG way in the last ten years and it seems we are slowly becoming the mad professors of the cooking world, thanks in no small part to guys like Heston Blumenthal, who is awesome and insane, mostly awesome.

 

[Diet Soda]

Soups are my speciality, Dowds.

 

[Sparky]

A chef that's specialty is soup?
That's different.

 

[Diet Soda]

As I said, used to be. And by speciality I mean they're the thing I'm best at and like to cook the most. Even during summer.
The interesting thing about soup, to congress with the thread topic, is that it is internationally ubiquitous; every country has their own take. Even within Britain there are many variations, such as Dowds' aforementioned fishy broth.